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The first stop of the 2015 Bouldering World Cup was in Toronto Canada during May 30/31. It was a different venue than last year, this time it was in a hockey arena.... The walls were much like our ABS National walls, the setting covered all styles of climbing and the crowd supported climbers from all across the globe. Check out some photos and my point of view from warm up, to boulders from qualifiers and my thoughts and feelings after.

Overview Training for the upcoming Bouldering World Cup season has pretty much consumed my current climbing schedule. I know what you're thinking “he’s such a gym rat! He's training for comps during great temps, spending money and time on comps and training instead of getting out! Well, if I were to do this all year, yea, call me a fully addicted, crazy ass, gym rat, but I do this type of intensity training and comp prep 2 parts of the year; and the second one doesn't even happen if the first one wasn't enough… ...

Four years after Vertical Sailing Greenland, Captain Reverend Bob Shepton (79) calls the Wild Bunch (Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll, Benjamin Ditto, Olivier and Nicolas Favresse) back onto his boat for a major mission! On board of the Dodo’s Delight (a 10m sailboat) the team measures up with arctic ice, polar bears and ferocious storms, in search of the holy grail: to find unclimbed big walls and musical enlightenment. After some mouthwatering walls and tunes in Greenland, it's in Baffin Island they find big virgin walls to feed their musical inspirations propelling the group to ultimate all-new heights!" Entirely shot and...

There aren’t words to describe how beautiful Fontainebleau is. All the hype about the bouldering area being the best in the world is completely true. The climbing is very technical, physical, and mentally demanding with many different kinds of movements and styles.

The sport of mountain biking has many diciplines, but most recently, trail bike racing, aka Enduro, has become all the craze. I am in New Zealand at the moment for Crankworx racing several events, and while out training I have also been learning all about race tactics and set up tips from the world's best Enduro racers here at round 1 of the Enduro World Series.

"Man it’s cold” I thought to myself as I pulled my head out of my sleeping bag. “Is it morning yet?” No... It was still pitch black outside. I did this every hour for the entire night. David’s booming snores filled the pop-up camper on top of the van. Everything inside the tent was wet from freezing condensation. When I finally saw the frosted grass turn orange, peeking out of the tent's air vent, I begrudgingly got out of my now-ice-covered sleeping bag and pulled on my puffy jacket. My whole body shuddered as I climbed out of the...